LanaLakke
Casey NewtonThis is such an obvious point but it is so funny to me that Elon's free-speech crusade on Twitter lasted all of six weeks before he started indiscriminately banning reporters. Like what an all-time hilarious business story
I also love that things went from "I should probably figure out a Twitter alternative" on Saturday to "My Twitter account will probably be nuked for no reason" on Thursday. What a week
Paul Haddad 
@caseynewton Friday it’ll be, wait why hasn’t my account been nuked!?!
Robin@paul @caseynewton what a status symbol 🥴
Viss@caseynewton "happy holidays from spacex and tesla", i guess, heh
std::polar@Viss Is this... the war on Christmas we've been promised?
Jonathan Pierce@caseynewton yeah I imagine you and Zoe aren’t long for this world on Twitter
Andy Baio@caseynewton your “The media will begin its divorce from Twitter” prediction came true about five minutes after you made it
Dan Sinker@andybaio @caseynewton quick toss some lotto numbers out.
Ryan Goodlett 
@andybaio @caseynewton am I missing something? Wouldn’t it be in the best interest of each media company to host their own #Mastodon instance and then post from those accounts? They would own and control their instance and it would be federated. I fully expect this to be the next step for #nytimes, #cnn, etc.
Tamar Yellin@ryangoodlett @andybaio @caseynewton Agreed- journa.host is good for independent journalists but big outfits should have their own instances. Journalists who leave their employers can take their account to a new instance.
Mark Crocker@TamarYellin @ryangoodlett @andybaio @caseynewton well @TexasObserver beat them to it https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/109486681492266817
Mastodon Migration (@[email protected])
#MastodonOnTheMove Dec 9, 2022 @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Create Mastodon Instances We've entered a new stage in the evolution of Mastodon social media. Trailblazing media organizations are creating their own instances–something impossible on other social media platforms. Recently publications like @[email protected], @[email protected] and @[email protected] established official accounts, now a few pioneers are taking the next step. [expand to continue] 1 of 6 #twittermigration #media #instance
@mcrocker @ryangoodlett @andybaio @caseynewton @TexasObserver ooh I love Texas Observer. This is great!
@ryangoodlett @caseynewton that will probably happen eventually, but I expect many journalists prefer to own their own social media identities, rather than lose it if they change employer. (Yes, they could redirect their Mastodon accounts, but would lose all their posts and some of their following.)
@andybaio @caseynewton I agree that there might be some friction there.
llywrch@ryangoodlett @andybaio @caseynewton Two thoughts: 1) If a media corp hosts its own Mastodon server, it can offer free, supported accounts as an incentive to subscribe, thus attracting more paying customers; 2) there shd be a way to alias accounts so for example myaccount@corp will map to [email protected]. (This cd be done especially if someone is paid to code this. As in by a company.)
Jocelyn Etienne@llywrch @ryangoodlett @andybaio @caseynewton
This debate parallels the one we have for #university hosted #instances. To go fully down the way along the values of the #fediverse, I believe one could separate powers there: unis/media groups should fund (provide servers) and independent societies run/appoint moderators of the service: in academia I suggest learned societies, for media idk - e.g. @icij ?
Ken Farinsky@ryangoodlett
@andybaio @caseynewton
Creating and running a Mastodon server is not a simple thing, and most media companies don't have the staff to support it. I'm surprised that someone like Amazon hasn't created a service to support this need. Why can't I spin up a fully managed Mastodon instance for my organization?
@andybaio @caseynewton
Creating and running a Mastodon server is not a simple thing, and most media companies don't have the staff to support it. I'm surprised that someone like Amazon hasn't created a service to support this need. Why can't I spin up a fully managed Mastodon instance for my organization?
Rimu@caseynewton My respect is higher for those who jumped before they were pushed.
The writing was on the wall for a while.
But, either way, welcome #TwitterMigration
Sloan Studio@caseynewton I read somewhere they are hitting all journalists who link to the new Elon Jet… I can't imagine how much more TSLA stock he is going to need to sell.
JLab8@caseynewton when Twitter suspends or bans an account they put it into a state that violates CCPA and GDPR;- you can't initiate a right to know request, you can't download data that was already collated for download, and you can't initiate a right to forget request, either.
Would really love to see some coverage that gets comment from relevant enforcement authorities on how/if they view that with respect to their laws and regulations.
Saul Sugarman
Thibault D.@caseynewton Honestly Casey, your Twitter account not being locked yet is a big lack of recognition for your work the past weeks. You and Zoe have been doing great work, thank you! I was anguishly waiting for you to come over here. Thank you that you timely did!
Carl Heath@caseynewton thank you Casey for your excellent reporting on this. Im so glad to find you here. No Im looking forward to welcoming Kara Swisher here too, if you can get her over. That would be fantastic.
IHeartHockey29We all are. I hate starting again on new stuff. Tried tribel first but didn't see accounts I knew. Then found a few big accounts I followed there on here that were actively posting last nite.
Jon Bakos@caseynewton I made a Mastodon account and kind of let it be, but after last night I was like "Let's try this thing for real"
StopTheOligarchy@caseynewton you-me, same boat.
Rand Fishkin@caseynewton Exactly how I feel right now
Uniqornicopia@caseynewton For me it was “I should have a backup in case twitter crashes” to “don’t want to be in that shit show so I’d better start actually participating on Mastodon”
Romaine@caseynewton
Don’t you admire how authoritarians first claim they are free speech absolutists and then start banning whom they please?
Don’t you admire how authoritarians first claim they are free speech absolutists and then start banning whom they please?
Paul Cantrell@caseynewton @ryanschultz
Just wait for “my Twitter account’s private metadata, some of which I did not even know they were collecting, will be handed over without my consent to fascists who wish to cause harm to me and the people I care about”
Just wait for “my Twitter account’s private metadata, some of which I did not even know they were collecting, will be handed over without my consent to fascists who wish to cause harm to me and the people I care about”
Rimko@caseynewton i already imagine the rest of the story:
➡️ People leave Twitter
➡️ Musk ask his employees to create bots to repost what people say on Mastodon #twittermigration
➡️ People leave Twitter
➡️ Musk ask his employees to create bots to repost what people say on Mastodon #twittermigration
cuddly but deadly! 
@Rimko @caseynewton *without attribution
ArnaudOffline
Erik Ableson@Rimko @caseynewton @mmasnick From a technical point of view, the logical thing to do is for Twitter to implement an ActivityPub gateway (easier said than done) so that #Twitter becomes just another #fediverse instance, viewable from #mastodon as @[email protected]
From there we see the *very interesting* social experiment of which instances keep it open and which defederate.
From there we see the *very interesting* social experiment of which instances keep it open and which defederate.
@Rimko @caseynewton @mmasnick With that said, as with anything to do with humans communicating across internet broadcast media, the problem is not technical and the goals of the various actors conflicting across so many dimensions I can’t even begin to weight the various possible decision trees of everyone involved.
Interesting idea, maybe it's a possibility in the futur but does the main instance will allow twitter?
I mean I guess that many instances can't take on post who will have thousand of reply coming for Twitter instance, and even if they did the moderation can be a issue ?
I don't know the technicals details but it could be interesting.
Landsil@caseynewton hey, welcome, nice to see you. Do you know if Nilay is also coming now that he left Twitter?
@Landsil not yet
@caseynewton oh well, have to refresh the verge more to get all the snakry comments 😁
Nirodha@caseynewton I nuked my own twitter account, which I had over 1200 followers
Chris Pirillo@caseynewton ...because his voice dictation improperly translated "freeze peach."
Anil@ChrisPirillo @caseynewton ironically, Peach is running better than it has in a while
The Big Fox@caseynewton And what will he get from this? He's killing his investment!
Andrew BennettHe's not investing in Twitter. He's investing in taking over Trump's followers.
@larthallor @caseynewton then the next logical step for him is to buy Truth Social and merge it into twitter.
And Trump's followers get him nothing unless he can make money off of them. He can't run for President.
@Trumptheloser
Why would you buy a platform you you can easily out compete?
What better way to take Trump's people than to drive Trump's platform into bankruptcy, paying him no money, further cementing Trump's status as a loser and as inferior to Musk?
@larthallor Because having trump posting on your platform could drive traffic to it.
Marco Wobben@larthallor @Trumptheloser @caseynewton
Worried he'd might run for president very soon too. He's too rich to not be on Putin's radar.
Thomas H Jones II@Trumptheloser @caseynewton Parler or Truth 2.0?
Kat Folland@Trumptheloser @caseynewton It's like... Twitter, as it was, was doing well enough to sell it for a ridiculous price. It was a really stupid choice to pay more for it than you could possibly ever recoup... And then, in an effort to try anyway he shattered what had been (mostly) working thus far. And that was *before* he started forcing tweets on people, which in turn was before he started suspending journalists. Why do billionaires have such thin skins?
@thejustkat @caseynewton Musk has no personal support system, just people who want his money(1 way or the other). So no one around him is going to tell him to stop being a fuckmuppet. They're going to egg him on.
@Trumptheloser @caseynewton Very true. In a lot of ways he's naive. He didn't have a clue how to run a social media platform, and didn't know that he didn't know. He most likely hasn't figured it out yet. Because, yes, his fanboys will, as you say, simply egg him on; they'll tell him he's always right.
@thejustkat @caseynewton Musk has been a disaster whenever he's actually running a company.
Jacob Schumer@caseynewton He's coming for Substack just so he can force you all to move to ghost.io
Rob Price@caseynewton looking forward to the Twitter Files about this
Russell Cameron Thomas@caseynewton And even so, there are still people appearing on CNBC and other business channels labeling EM as a "genius". Some even favoring his tactics, endorsing the fever dreams of Twitter 2.0, and adding "Twitter keeps running ... so most of those employees weren't really needed."
Zalasur 🐸🇺🇦@caseynewton I'm honestly surprised it lasted this long
Warner Crocker@caseynewton Emphasis on "hilarious".